Those of you who enjoy watching Japanese dramas, you have probably seen your share of cold and arrogant male leads. These characteristics can be entertaining and frustrating to watch. Yet, these kinds of dramas are in demand with the viewers.
In lots of Japanese dramas these arrogant male leads are a standard feature. Characters like these are complex to like, but viewers eventually soften up to them as the story progresses. Their arrogance gives birth to an engaging story. Here is a list of ten Japanese dramas with arrogant male leads.
1. Watashitachi Wa Douka Shiteiru
Yuriko is the mother of Hanaoka Nao and is baker at Kogetsuan, a traditional Japanese sweets store. When Nao meets the owner’s six-year-old son, Takatsuki Tsubaki, they quickly bond. Tsubaki’s father is killed, and Nao’s mother is held liable for the crime after Tsubaki’s testimony. Nao finds herself without a place to live after the arrest of her mother both lovers part ways with resentment. Fifteen years later, at a Japanese sweet’s competition, Nao and Tsubaki meet once again.
2. Koi Wa Tsuzuku Yo Doko Made Mo
The plot of the drama revolves around Sakura Nanase who is an amateur nurse who is 22 years old. A few years ago, she met Doctor Tendo Kairi and fell in love with him. To see him again, she studies hard and becomes a nurse. When she eventually meets him, she discovers he is not the same person she once met. He is known as the “Devil” in the hospital. He is a cold, strict perfectionist who gives his subordinates a hard time. Yet, Sakura gives her all to get Tendo’s approval, and she is open and honest with him about her feelings. Dur to her perseverance Tendo finds Sakura attractive.
3. The Attorney Is The Devil
Mikoshiba Reiji is an unethical lawyer who will stop at nothing to win. A clerk named Kusakabe Yoko is hired by him to work for him. Yoko learns that Reiji committed a horrible crime when he was young.
4. Koi Wa Deep Ni
Fish and the sea are two things that Nagisa Mio, an oceanographer at Shibaura University of Marine Science and Technology, adores. She is a happy and kind person but holds some trauma about her past and family. The son of a wealthy family, Hasuda Rintaro is a cold and arrogant man. He has to come back to Japan after his father falls sick and takes over the management of a marine development project. This is a significant project for him while Mio wants to preserve the ocean and marine life. Throughout this project, they develop feelings for each other.
5. Eien No Kinou
Koichi is a popular student. Mitsuru lacks social skills despite her talent. Despite their opposite characters, they can’t help but fall in love with each other. One day, Koichi meets with an accident after getting hit by a truck. Although he survives the accident, his classmates slowly start forgetting him.
6. Akuma To Love Song
After being dismissed from her former school, Kawai Maria attends Totsuka High School. She bluntly tells her peers at her new school that the reason for expulsion was assault against her teacher. But her bluntness and beautiful look make her an outsider in her new school.
7. Nen A Gumi: Ima Kara Mina-san Wa, Hitojichi Desu
All the 29 students of class 3-A are held hostage by their homeroom teacher Hiirahi. He wanted to bring the truth out about the death of one of his pupils.
8. Junichi
The story of this drama centres around Junichi, a young man who appears to have intense feelings for a woman while being unemployed and homeless. He meets many women who are not happy with their lives and seek company in him. This is a tale of a nuanced love between six women aging from 16 to 65 years old and Junichi’s unconventional life.
9. Kanojo Wa Kirei Datta
The story is about Hasebe Sosuke who was brought in from New York to Japan as the deputy editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine “The Most.” He is a cold and arrogant man. As a kid he was an overweight kid but now a handsome young man he wishes to reunite with his first love.
10. Kekkon Yoteibi
Kawai Yoshiko who is 28 years old, is still unmarried, when her initial plan was to get married at 26, have her first child at 27 and second child at 29. Just days before her 29th birthday she gets her heart broken and she meets her colleague, on the way home. When she informs him about her heartbreak Yuuki-san proposes to marriage a year later but with a condition.
